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...raised to a high pitch, elevation-as if the whole round earth were a continuous, altitudinous tableland. TIME is so intense; no shading, no contrast-all scarlet red unrelieved by any restful, soft yellow or buff tints. It is like a rich full dinner with no salad or soup. To read TIME is to take an extended journey on the swift Twentieth Century Limited with no stops or layovers; no dimming of lights by night, nor shading the glowing sun by day. TIME thrills me as a sensational airplane ride, with its gyrations, its quick twists and turns and glides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 4, 1927 | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...make a woman beautiful is to pierce a hole through the flesh of her lower lip and insert a flat wooden plug. Do the same with the upper lip, and gradually insert larger and larger plugs. At last two wooden discs as large as soup plates, each edged with stretched lip, will hang down from the beautified face, almost prevent speech, and render eating extremely difficult. Complete the beautification by filing the teeth to sharp points and hanging a ring in the nose. Then, in the French Colony of Senegal, West Africa, the woman so adorned may expect to command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beautification Banned | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

Engaged. Elinor Dorrance, daughter of Dr. John T. Dorrance, president of Campbell Soup Co.; to one Nathaniel P. Hill of Denver and Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 6, 1927 | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...Joliet, Ill., a priest driving an automobile asked permission to pass through the State prison grounds "for a short cut." He was seized and, after a violent brawl, unfrocked, and seen to be no priest. The automobile contained "a can of soup" (nitro-glycerin), loaded pistol, cartridge belt, two suits of clothes, a blue-print of the prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Boy | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

Paint em, draw one, hold the soup...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: THE CRIME | 4/16/1927 | See Source »

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